Sentences with phrase «reform efforts because»

By Dr. Diane Ravitch: CTL has outlived many reform efforts because it is focused on what matters most: strengthening instruction in the classroom.

Cuomo's stance has a number of advocates concerned that he has abandoned reform efforts because the public has grown numb to the cloud of scandal that hangs around the state capitol - a cloud voters appear to be attaching to the governor in public opinion polls.

«I support the tax reform effort because overburdened families deserve tax relief so they can keep more of their hard - earned money, but I can't support legislation that forces my constituents to pay for tax cuts elsewhere in the country,» Donovan said.

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U.S. technology companies have privately bristled at those efforts, three industry lobbyists, in part because expectations that 702 reforms will pass Congress are low.

But such reform movements, as efforts to recover the genuine and liberative orientations of the modern experience of reason, were either ignored by the dominant modern cultures or, when they succeeded, they did so only because they adapted the dominative power techniques of manipulation and control typical of the social orders and cultures against which they initially protested.

They represented several generations of frustrated efforts at religious reform, and they sought out a new habitation because they were convinced that their lives and fortunes were in danger at the hands of the Crown.

«I think what you see here are efforts by people who are so adamantly opposed to engaging in tax reform because they love the status quo and they're protecting the status quo that they don't want us to be successful in regards to tax reform,» he said.

«Because of repeated efforts to block this reform by the Senate Majority, we request that you once again include closure of the LLC Loophole in your Executive Budget proposal and ensure that it is included in the final enacted budget.»

He said the police investigation had been a «shock to the system» and was on the whole a «good one» because would result in changes in the way political parties were funded and had led to renewed efforts to finish the reform of the House of Lords.

Advocates of electoral reform have argued the new system will force MPs to «work harder» because they will need to broaden their efforts beyond their core vote.

Reform party candidate John Mangelli and independent candidate Jonathan Clarke said last week they thought they had more time because of challenges to their successful efforts to get on the ballot but would file their disclosures soon.

The frantic effort to save the policy comes as Ed Miliband delivered a speech saying David Cameron is «betraying the trust» of the public because of the reforms.

And the governor said he is not concerned at this point about some claims that President Trump's efforts to reform the federal Affordable Care Act will blast a major hole in the state's budget because of a change in federal reimbursement formulas.

«He may actually have a conflict because as a member of the City Council, his first obligation is to the people of the city,» said Richard Brodsky, the former assemblyman who led a successful effort to reform the state's public authorities.

Under questioning by reporters, Hochul defends the governor's efforts on campaign reform and says Republican challenger Rob Astorino is hypocritical in his attacks because the Westchester County executive needs to explain his favors for aides and allies in running his county.

Even so, efforts to implement those reforms have been unsuccessful in Congress, largely because the health program is very popular among seniors and talking about changing it can be a political liability.

Long said she wanted to draw attention to the refugees because immigration is an issue in her election against Schumer, who led an effort to pass a bipartisan immigration reform bill in the Senate.

The LLC loophole has become a major flashpoint in the battle for campaign finance reform because other efforts at reform failed in this year's budget negotiations and a pilot public financing program for last year's comptroller race never got off the ground.

For the best development I chose Race to the Top, because the initiative, the key reform effort of the Obama Administration, demonstrated broad political support for charters, merit pay and data - driven education reform.

Part of the reason that the small - schools effort was so remarkable is that it bucked the reform instinct to start when kids are young; it was also notable because it was so long in coming.

The mayor's reform efforts were aided by the fact that veteran teachers and administrators were excited again about school because of the small - schools efforts spearheaded by New Visions.

The good news is that, in large part because of NCLB and the accountability measures that federal law has encouraged at all levels of school reform — not to mention the dogged efforts of Diane Ravitch and Sol Stern to keep Bloomberg and Klein on their toes — these arguments are smarter and more refined — and, yes, despite public relations — more transparent.

He makes similar arguments about how efforts to improve teacher quality, instructional approaches like Success for All, and high - expectation techniques practiced by educators like Jaime Escalante and Rafe Esquith are not promising models for reform because their success is due to the selection of students or other factors that can not be replicated on a broader scale.

Of particular interest is EM's claim on its web site: «Previous efforts to reform mathematics instruction failed because they did not adequately consider the working lives of teachers.»

I told this story to a group of two dozen or so of my fellow ed reformers last week at an American Enterprise Institute convening on «race, social justice, and school reform» because I wanted to make two simple (some will say simplistic) points: our expensive and aggressive ed reform efforts still focus far too little on what kids do in school all day; and we don't all have the same ideas about what it means to serve the cause of social justice — or whether it is even appropriate to place social justice issues at the heart of our efforts to improve outcomes for kids.

Presidents at least as far back as Bill Clinton have made attendance a priority of their school - reform efforts, in part because of the social costs of youngsters not attending.

The changes were necessary, argued Superintendent Donald W. Ingwerson, because the district's current busing program interferes with efforts to increase parental involvement and bring about other school improvements mandated under Kentucky's landmark education - reform law.

A common perception in education circles is that there is no need to take any particular reform effort too seriously, if only because in short order it will be supplanted by something else.

Moreover, because it was a top - down approach - a demand for effective management that business leaders, governors, and the public could readily understand - it came across as a natural extension of mainstream reform efforts to make the existing system work better.

Because of the way Congress creates and funds programs, the department traditionally operated in program - based silos, which led to similar silos in states and hampered efforts to link together programs in comprehensive reform.

The book The Prize details how the reform effort in Newark Public Schools failed, in large part, because Newark residents and district employees felt like reform was done to them, not with them.

Indeed, the reality of the matter is that both of California's teachers» organizations support Gavin Newsom because he has pledged to work with them rather than join the billionaire boys club behind corporate education reform efforts and the unregulated spread of charter schools that will continue to drain funding from other public schools and, if left unchecked, ultimately undermine public education itself.

Since the 1960s, efforts to reform education — including various curricular changes, reading approaches, teacher preparation, money for the disadvantaged, and different instructional approaches — have failed to bring about true systemic change because the reforms fail to deal with a different definition of learning.

While Kline's proposal to end the federal School Improvement Program, one of the three key aspects of the Obama administration's school reform efforts, makes sense because school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure mills.

If not for No Child, the most - successful of the Obama administration's reform effort so far — Race to the Top and I3 — wouldn't have had a chance of succeeding, largely because there would have been no pressure in the form of the proficiency and accountability provisions that No Child brought to bear.

Perhaps (or perhaps likely) this is because for the past decade or so states invested so much time, effort, and money to «reforming» their prior teacher evaluations systems as formerly required by the federal government.

That is, many reform efforts tend to assume that principals are overly generous with their evaluations because they lack either the motivation or the information to demand better performance from their teachers.

It will take a collection of men and women with entrepreneurial drive, operational savvy and passion for overhauling education so that all children can succeed in order to take on the challenges of transforming a system that has poorly served so many kids for far too long.After all, reform efforts are wasted if they fail because of bad strategic, tactical and operational decisions.

While I generally agree that Betsy DeVos is bad for education because of her inexperience in education and overt efforts to use education reform «to advance God's kingdom,» I take offense with your position that charters and choice are not what Latino families need, and here's why:

This is why movement conservatives not engaged in education discussions are naturally be more - supportive of measures such as the expansion of school choice (because they conform to their views that markets and private actions by families should be the deciding forces in education) than of other reform efforts that seem to involve what they may perceive more - robust federal or state government roles, or involve what they consider to be an abrogation of roles they think should be in the hands of families or local governments.

This is because it can be difficult for even the most reform - minded governors, with strong support for his efforts from activists and wonks on the ground, to overhaul public education.

Too often, reform efforts have foundered because of a district's inability to place in its schools the quality of staff needed to effect radical change.

He decided to get involved in part because he is an admirer of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's efforts at school reform.

Because the real impact of this year's election lies not so much with the results, but in what the effort means for the evolution of the school reform movement itself.

These results show that several thousands of New Orleans» children have brighter futures because of current reforms, and these efforts — and the progress they promise — must continue to anchor education policy as we transition toward unification.

The goal of standards - based reform efforts is to change teaching because without new approaches to teaching, most students» learning will not improve (Cohen, 1995).

It's easy to be skeptical about school reform, because there have been so many efforts over so many years, all replete with their own jargon, and all producing still limited, and often unsuccessful, results.

After all, the AFT (along with the NEA) have lost influence because accountability, choice, and teacher quality reform efforts continue to shine light on the failed policies and practices they defend.

Puckett, who taught at Chipman and quit because of the changes following from NCLB, also contextualizes the eventual closure of the school, and the devaluation of what it stood for, in the broader context of education reform and accountability efforts nationwide.»

Assessing What Really Matters in Schools: Creating Hope for the Future, by Ronald J. Newell and Mark J. Van Ryzin, asserts that» «since the 1960s, efforts to reform education — including various curricular changes, reading approaches, teacher preparation, money for the disadvantaged, and different instructional approaches — have failed to bring about true systemic change because the reforms fail to deal with a different definition of learning.»»